Share of U.S. infants who were breastfed at discharge in 2019, by maternal ethnicity
In 2019, around 9 in 10 infants born to Asian mothers were offered breastmilk between delivery and discharge from the hospital. In comparison, about 7.4 in 10 newborns were offered breastmilk by Black mothers.
This statistic shows the percentage of newborn infants in the United States in 2019 who were breastfed at time of discharge from the hospital, by maternal ethnicity.